"You know, not far from the White House is a statue of the great liberator, Simon Bolivar, " Bush said.
Some of his ideas seem almost frivolously irrelevant (such as renaming the country after Simon Bolivar, its independence hero).
ALBA, which is named after the 19th century independence leader Simon Bolivar, is opening an office in the southeast Peruvian city of Puno.
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She is part of the Bolivarian militia, named after independence hero Simon Bolivar and created by Mr Chavez to give military training to civilian volunteers.
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Venezuelan-born Dudamel is himself a product of El Sistema, and is also music director of the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela, the flagship of El Sistema.
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The people of Pasto told Simon Bolivar nearly 200 years ago that they preferred to stay with Spain, thank you, and many citizens remain proud of it.
But among all the nominees in this year's Latin Grammys, an album that deserves several awards is Fiesta by Gustavo Dudamel, conducting the Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela.
You could put a high valuation, for instance, on the feedback from the Cultural Olympiad's concert in Stirling last month, where Venezuela's renowned Simon Bolivar Orchestra performed in the rain.
Venezuelan Vice President Nicolas Maduro, who will be sworn in as interim president later Friday, laid a replica of the sword that South American hero Simon Bolivar used on top of Chavez's flag-draped casket.
In a message delivered by video early this year, the FARC invoked Simon Bolivar's name as a role model and a liberator of oppressed people and as a supporter of continental unity.
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Yet his most important goal was the building of an alliance among the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean that would fulfil the frustrated dream of his great hero, South American independence leader Simon Bolivar, two centuries before.
According to Bloomberg, the Libyan delegation delivered a letter from the embattled Gadhafi to his South American ally, Chavez, who has compared the Libyan leader to Simon Bolivar, one of the most important figures in the South American emancipation campaigns against the Spanish in the XIX century.
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